Project Grant DESC0024052

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,000,000 to Molten Salt Solutions, LLC to implement a liquid/liquid extraction pilot-scale production system for lithium isotope enrichment. The project aims to develop the first commercial-scale lithium isotope enrichment process using this extraction method. Enriching stable lithium isotopes has applicability in purifying other stable isotopes and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $175,000 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to support research under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project aims to advance a sustainable chemistry-based approach for extracting lithium ions from hypersaline aqueous brines, which have lower lithium-ion concentrations compared to other alkali metal cations. The...

This federal Project Grant award of $499,320 was provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, to Lithios Inc. located in Medford, MA. The funding supports the development of "Advanced Lithium Extraction (ALE)", a new electrochemical technology to selectively extract lithium from difficult feedstocks with high purity. The goal is to help overcome limitations in current lithium extraction methods and support more sustainable and domestic lithium...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $231,810 to the University of Louisville provides funding for a collaborative research project on the selective extraction of lithium from seawater. The principal investigators, Professors Xiaowei Teng and Badri Narayanan, aim to develop new classes of manganese oxide layered materials for electrochemical lithium extraction from seawater. The project will integrate materials synthesis,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation provides $497,339.95 in funding to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) to develop an innovative hybrid membrane process for simultaneous recovery of clean water and lithium from high-salinity brines. The project aims to address challenges associated with the disposal of large volumes of high-salinity brines through a membrane distillation-crystallization system for...

The Department of Energy awarded a $723,475,026.97 Project Grant to SWA Lithium LLC under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to construct the largest and first-of-its-kind direct lithium extraction (DLE) facility producing battery-quality lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) from domestic lithium brine in southern Arkansas. The objective of the South West Arkansas (SWA) project is to establish a domestic production capability for...

The Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded Oregon State University a $500,000 cooperative agreement from July 2021 to December 2023 under the Conservation Research and Development program. The goal of the award is to develop microchannel-based membrane-less extraction technologies for lithium from unconventional sources and rare earth element separation. Oregon State University will work with the University of Pittsburgh to extract lithium from...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, provides $376,885 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to develop new classes of manganese oxide layered materials for the selective extraction of lithium from seawater using electrochemical methods. The project aims to understand how material structure, dopants, defect chemistry, ion-hydration, and ion transport affect lithium extraction from seawater, which is a promising source to meet the growing...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $206,500 Project Grant to Storagenergy Technologies Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The grant supports the company's research and development of an eco-friendly electroextraction process to extract lithium metal from brines, as part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). This grant-funded project aims to advance scientific understanding and develop innovative...

Sitration, Inc. was awarded a $320,000 project grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy to develop a new type of conductive nanomembrane filtration technology for selectively extracting lithium from existing lithium-ion battery recycling processes. The grant aims to support the Agency's objectives of advancing clean energy technologies and supporting the President's goals for the Department of Energy. Sitration will utilize the 18-month funding period...